Word: whitehead
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...pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind of the West. Says he: "The current trend towards more and fiercer specialisms is making men forget their...
...During 30 years as a newspaperman," said Reporter Don Whitehead, "home had been wherever I happened to hang my hat." In World War II he hung his hat in hundreds of huts and tents, covered the front wherever war burned hottest: in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. He hung it in Korea in 1950, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, won another in 1953 for his stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known...
...Whitehead's decision to get out of the world race was dictated partly by an arterial condition in his legs that makes it painful for him to move, partly by success -his 1956 book, The FBI Story, was a bestseller. But more important was a desire to go back home. He left the A.P. in 1956 to become the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau chief, quit in 1957 and toured the world gathering material for a book on international crime, finally realized that where he really wanted to be was back in Knoxville...
...News-Sentinel, Whitehead will produce three columns a week on anything that comes to mind, while continuing to work on his next book. This week his first column began: "A wise man once said that home is where the heart is, and that's what I've decided after years of knocking around this troubled, exciting old world. No one was more surprised than I when the realization finally came that 'home' was back here in these ancient and beautiful hills that seem to bound a little world of their...
Professor Demos quotes Whitehead in connecting moral education with "visions of greatness." At Harvard we have the opportunity to come into contact with greatness in many forms, through the curriculum, and through association with professors and students, some of whom may possess greatness in one way or another. We need to look for it, and to desire to see it. But we also need to learn how to recognize these visions, and how to transform them into experience that will have both beauty and meaning for our lives...